At 05:07 AM 10/17/00 -0600, you wrote:
>At 4:10 PM -0700 10/16/00, Matthew Scholtz wrote:
>>I don't use v1.0, but I can see at least two problems with that calculation.
>>1) Duration is not a date field (at least not in v1.2) so can't be
>>added to a date without transformation.
>
>That's right, the calculation for expiration date parses out the M or
>Y for months or years, and the number, and adds that to the month of
>the start date.
Well, actually, no. According to the original post, it's not parsed out in v1.0. It
is in version 1.2
>
>>2) Why would you want to add the duration to the previous EXPIRATION
>>DATE??? That doesn't even make sense. Shouldn't the new membership
>>begin on the day the old one ended?
>
>Isn't that what would happen if you added the duration to the
>previous expiration date?
>
No, I would think that you would add the duration to the previous Start Date (not
Expiration Date) to get the date the membership ended. Of course, why not just use
the previous Expiration Date (with nothing added)?
>
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